Boy, 14, admits sexual assaults and knife attack

A 14-year-old boy, who sexually assaulted two women and in another incident held a knife to a pregnant woman’s stomach, has been remanded on bail pending sentence by the Dublin Children’s Court.

The boy, who is residing in a care unit, pleaded guilty today to two sexual assaults on the same date in January last, in Dublin. He also admitted four other charges, two for production of a knife as a weapon at his care home in November last year, when he was aged 13, and two more for attacking two women who worked in the unit.